Standard (EADGBE)
I started off a newsboy on a paper.
For a time I worked in an elevator.
But all the time I knew that later,
I would be a higher rater,
Finally, a big time operator.
For a while I drove an excavator.(yes I did.)
Then I became a wine and brandy waiter.
A builder, then a decorator,
Later on, an estimator,
I'm gonna be a big time operator.
(Oh, ya got to believe in me!)
I took a job as an airline navigator.
Then I became a crime investigator.(yes I did.)
For a time, a commentator,
Then I was an administrator,
I'm gonna be a big time operator.
(yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Well, don't you know I'm gonna be in the
big time baby?
A big time operator...
I'll have a whole lotta people workin' for me.
Gonna have a chauffeur, an upstairs maid.
Big limousine, racing sports car.
50 foot yacht, race horses.
I'm gonna give new meaning to the word 'big',\
A big time operator now, now.
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.